noun:

• noro; member of a hereditary caste of female mediums in Okinawa

noun:

• executive council (usu. of a party); board of governors; general affairs committee

noun:

• sweet potato (any of a number of different cultivars with red skin)

noun:

• abomasum (fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant); maw; rennet-bag

noun:

• grounds of a Shinto shrine
• enchanted land; abode of immortals and gods

noun:

• jatropha (member of a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family)

noun:

• øre; Danish or Norwegian monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a krone - From Danish or Norwegian ➜ クローネ
• öre; Swedish monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a krona - From Swedish ➜ クローナ

noun / counter:

• swing; shake; wave; swinging

noun:

• appearance; behaviour - usually written using kana alone
• pretence (pretense); show; pretending (to) - oft. after a noun+の or verb in the dictionary form - usually written using kana alone ➜ 振りをする

noun / ~の noun:

• going to restaurant, hotel etc. without a reservation or introduction - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• move (dance); postures
• lead in (e.g. to a running joke, asking a question); lead up - oft. as フリ - usually written using kana alone ➜ 前振り
• unsewn part of a hanging sleeve on a traditional Japanese woman's garment

suffix / counter:

• counter for swords, blades, etc.

noun:

• not wearing underwear or pants - archaism

noun:

• using a meat ax when a knife would suffice; taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut; using a grand-scale measure (a massive instrument) to deal with an insignificant problem

noun:

• distance of eight sun (approx. 24 cm)
• dish or tray of this size (esp. used in kaiseki cuisine to serve several kinds of delicacies); food served in such a dish
• var. of thick, traditional Japanese paper

noun:

• place; spot; space
• field; discipline; sphere; realm
• occasion; situation ➜ その場
• scene (of a play, movie, etc.)
• session (of the stock market)
• area in which cards are laid out (in a card game)
• round (i.e. east, south, etc.) - Mahjong term ➜ 東場・南場・西場・北場
• field - Physics term
• field (gestalt psychology)

noun:

• China and foreign countries (from the perspective of China); civilized land and uncivilized land

noun:

• address to the gods; type of song which spread from mountain hermits to the laity during the Kamakura era

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to bore; to tire; to weary; to stultify ➜ 飽かす
• to use lavishly (and without regret) - often intransitively as 〜に飽かせて

noun:

• large cloth sack
• baggy trousers (worn in the late-Edo and early-Meiji periods by samurai while practising)

noun:

• full breasts; large breasts; ample breasts ➜ 豊胸
• breast augmentation ➜ 豊胸

noun:

• imperial portrait; photograph of the incumbent Emperor and Empress distributed to schools between 1890 and the end of the Second World War
• portrait or photo of a person of high rank - honorific language

noun:

• wisdom and magnanimity; witty intelligence and large-mindedness
• measurement; volume and weight

pre-noun adjectival:

• large; big
• grown (man, etc.)
• great (friend, etc.); huge (football fan, etc.)

noun:

• large-headed midnight fish (Poromitra crassiceps)
• armored fish; armoured fish ➜ 甲冑魚

noun / ~する noun:

• preliminary inspection; having a look in advance
• preparatory read-through (e.g. of lesson notes)

noun:

• siding (on a house); clapboard; weatherboard ➜ 下見板【したみいた】

noun:

• sheathing (under thatched roofing) - abbreviation
• lath (used as a foundation for a mud plaster wall)
• decorative rafters (of alternating wood and bamboo) ➜ 桟竹

noun:

• humorous mask of a homely woman's face (characterized by a small low nose, high flat forehead, and bulging cheeks)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to bore; to tire; to weary; to stultify
• to use lavishly (and without regret) - often intransitively as 〜に飽かして

noun:

• long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "o" and "u" or "e" and "u" sounds